Land use planning is essential to maintain and restore water resources, estuaries and associated ecosystem services, as well as, to prevent and adapt to risks in the face of global change. Land use planning can be used to minimize human pressures and associated impacts on water resources and ecosystems as it can significantly affect the impact of human activities on the water cycle of a region. Through the prep...
Estuaries concentrate complex and often conflicting sets of natural, economic and social resources and activities bringing multiple challenges to institutional frameworks, planning and management approaches as well as governance practices dedicated to their protection, maintenance and resilience. Portugal has recently adopted a new set of estuary plans of regulatory nature, which combine the perspective of wate...
Over the past decades, at the same time that traditional activities declined, the Ria de Aveiro (the estuary of the river Vouga) has suffered strong development pressures (urban, agricultural and industrial), which have caused severe environmental problems such as water pollution, eutrophication, habitat destruction, among others. In particular, changes in the estuary’s hydrodynamics are being increasingly seen...
This paper explores the water-related citizens’ complaints submitted to the municipalities surrounding ‘Ria de Aveiro’, a natural lagoon located in the center of Portugal close to the Atlantic coast, and is aimed at analyzing how local administrative boundaries might influence the frequency, typologies and territorial pattern of complaints. It also analyzes the frequency of water-related complaints in relation ...
La entrada en vigor de la Directiva Marco del Agua en noviembre de 2000 incorporó el enfoque integrado en la gobernanza de los ríos en Europa y obligó a los Estados Miembros a una coordinación conjunta sobre sus cuencas internacionales permitiendo para ello adoptar las estructuras existentes derivadas de acuerdos internacionales. Desde entonces España y Portugal han venido utilizando las estructuras de cooperac...
This paper presents an environmental diagnosis based on public complaints on environmental issues submitted to the Environmental Department of the Aveiro City Council, Portugal, between 2000 and 2005. It discusses the potential influences of these in local environmental planning and governance. The paper has been organised into five sections. The first of these introduces the study. The second section focuses o...
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